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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: London accent *not* 'degraded'!
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In article <3ruqfb$214@maverick.tad.eds.com> Stewart McKenna <ahipc1j.smcken01@eds.com> writes:
>I'm not. It's symptomatic of a monoculture. Great communication, but
>very little local colour. People in the US move around so much !
>Unfortunately, or fortunately, the same thing is happening in Britain
>and in Europe. Or is it ? The seems to be a world-wide movement to
>accent local languages, dialects, cultures. What I would call a kind
>of neo-Balkanization ...
As long as it means people talk or look or sing differently, I think it;s 
great. As long as they shoot each other for being different. 
